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Dear Parents, The students have taken great pride and care in preparing our first edition of the Kelly Creek Elementary School Newspaper called The Cougar’s Roar. This paper has been student lead and directed with oversight by the speech-language pathologist. Many of the articles and contributions to the newspaper are from students who receive speech-language support , with contributions from other interested and gifted students in our school. Each contribution to our paper has the student’s name and grade above it. We are sure you will enjoy reading our first edition and because it is an electronic newspaper, you can direct family and friends to Kelly Creek website so they can admire your student’s work as well. Check out the guide below to see what you will find in part 2 of our first edition!

A note from the speech-language pathologist Christmas in Mexico Cont’d pg. 1 Parents, Mayor Bemis pg.2 I cannot say enough good about shared storybook and/or How It’s Made pg.3 chapter book reading. Taking time to interactively read How It’s Made Cont’d pg. 4 books together enhances language and literacy skills The Golden Gate Bridge pg. 5 exponentially. Reading with your child daily models articulation, language skills and increases vocabulary Portland Bridges pg. 6 development. Start a new tradition this new year, read a Robots in School pg. 7 book/chapter with your student each day! Chromebooks in School pg. 8 Below are some questions to get you started with Restaurant Review pg.9 interactive reading with your child. Endangered/Extinct Animals pg.10 ● What did you notice? Sports = Football pg.11 ● Does this book remind you of anything? Theater Review pg. 12 ● What was your favorite part? Book Review pg. 13 ● What part of this book surprised you? Advice Column pg.14 ● What would happen if ……? Human Interest pg. 15 ● What do you think will happen next? Did You Know pg. 16 Recipes pg. 17 The Cougar’s Roar

CHRISTMAS IN MEXICO

Christmas in Mexico By Priscila Solano Christmas in Mexico Have you ever wondered how they by Dylan Ventura – 3rd Grade celebrate Christmas in Mexico? Posada Did you ever want a pinata for Christmas? means people go house to house and People will get a bat and hit the pinata as hard they have candles to look for Joseph as they can, then it will break the pinata. After and Mary. Each night a different house that, the candy will come out. The posada is celebrated by going house to house and lighting holds the Posada. In each Posada fireworks and candles.The Posada is celebrated children December 12 to January 16th. The Posada is are given candles on a board with celebrated in Mexico and New Mexico. I’m so painted clay figures and Mary riding on excited for Christmas and wish I could go to Mexico for Christmas! a donkey.

Neighbors sing a song at each home the song is about Joseph and Mary. The Cougar’s Roar

J’san: What is the first thing you said when you first became a mayor? Mayor Bemis: I said thank you to the people who put their trust and faith in me. J’san: What was it like when you won the election on Tuesday night and what did you do? Mayor Bemis Mayor Bemis: Pretty nice. I’ve By: J’san - 5th Grade worked with these community

members for more than twenty years. Mr. Shane T. Bemis became the 26th mayor of Gresham. He is the I celebrated with family and friends. youngest serving mayor in Gresham’s history. He is a founding We had a nice time. member and the current chairman of the Metropolitan Mayors J’san: What is the best part of being Consortium. The Metropolitan Mayors Consortium advocates on a mayor? behalf of local government interests. The U.S. Conference of Mayor Bemis: getting to work with Mayors has recognized Gresham’s best practices in producing the people where I live and work with clean energy and supporting small businesses. Under Mayor the people I represent. Bemis’ leadership, the city’s wastewater treatment plant went J’san: What is the thing that you from being one of our city’s biggest energy hogs to producing dislike the most about being the more energy than it consumes. The City of Gresham was one of mayor? the first in the nation to accomplish this! Because of this, Mayor Mayor Bemis: I don’t dislike Bemis has saved Gresham’s ratepayers $800,000 per year in anything but sometimes it is avoided energy costs. challenging. J’san: Do you have any kids? Listed below are some examples of how Mayor Bemis has lead Mayor Bemis: Yes, three boys ages our city in making the following improvements: 16, 13 and 7. · Development of the downtown Arts Plaza J’san: What advice would you give if · Addition of the children’s fountain at the Arts Plaza someone wanted to be a mayor? · Construction of Rockwood Police Facility Mayor Bemis: The most important · Increased enforcement of illegally parked RVs in Gresham thing is to have a servant’s heart, a neighborhoods. heart for the community and the · Successfully advocated for $664,100 in county funding for people that you serve. Help people, enhanced services to address homelessness. do research and be motivated by the These are improvements under Mayor Bemis’ leadership just to right things. name a few. There are many more ways that he has worked to improve our Gresham community. Being a mayor is an important job and a lot of hard work. So many people are depending on a mayor to I had an opportunity to interview Mayor Bemis just after he won represent and care for their the mid-term election to remain our mayor for the City of community. Now you know more Gresham. Read below to find out more about Mayor Bemis. about the mayor of the City of Gresham.

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HOW IT’S MADE

ow and When Were T.V.s Invented By: Brandon Ruiz Garcia 4th Grade In the early 1920’s, John Baird, a Scottish engineer and inventor had a whole bunch of stuff that he put on his table including: knitting needles, a bike lamp, a biscuit tin, and a hatbox lid. He was experimenting with producing the first ever television. He put the hatbox lid sideways and cut holes in it, and then set it on its side. Next he put knitting needles through one of the holes for the hatbox to be able to spin. Mr. Baird shined a light sideways, through the holes in the hatbox as it spun on the knitting needles. As the light hit the spinning disc it broke into tiny pieces of light, which reflected an image. This caused an image of the object or person to project onto a wall. Mr. Baird used the wood from a coffin to create the base. It took several years and a lot of trials before the television was finally finished. The first image captured an d projected was a ventriloquist’s doll. After having success with the ventriloquist’s doll, Mr. Baird excitedly called up an office worker named William Taynton to see how a human face might be transmitted.. William sat stiff in the chair. He was reportedly scared about what was going to happen. The first television screen was very small, like the size of a 5X7 picture frame. The first images televised produced five frames per second. Today’s televisions, for comparison, produce twenty-four frames per second, which are refreshed five times every 24th of a second! The first television produced thirty lines of resolution, which gave the picture a more grainy quality. Today’s televisions and movies produce 500 lines of resolution. So, as you are enjoying your holiday shows this winter break, remember to be grateful to John Baird for his invention of the television , in 1925 The Cougar’s Roar

HOW IT’S MADE____

How Bikes Were and Are Made By: Julio Lopez – 4th Grade In France, in 1790, the first bike was made. It was made out of wood, looked like a horse and had no wheels and no peddles. Then in 1861, a German inventor added peddles and wheels. In 1870 bikes were built with one large wheel in the front and a little wheel in the back. In 1903 the first bike race was done. It was the first of the famous race called Tour de France. Now bikes are made in a factory. First the metal is formed into tubes. The tubes are a light weight but strong metal. The How CandyCorn is Made tubes are cut into the right size, then the By: Jacob Carr – 4th Grade tubes are polished. The tubes are then A man named George Renninger was the first person that made sent to a bending machine where they candy corn in the late 1800’s. He knows four candy corn secrets. shaped into the different parts. As the Mr. Renninger started making candy corn in 1890 but they did not have machines. Candy corn starts with a wet mixture called bikes are made, they go through different slurring. One secret to good candy corn is good texture. The machines in different rooms in the factory secret to smooth texture is marshmallow cream. Machines now to have each part made for example the make the candy corn. The different colors of candy corn are handle bars, brakes, wheels, etc. After the layered into molds to create the famous triangle shape. Each parts are formed, they are polished again mold makes 1,300 pieces of candy corn at a time in a tray. and then put through a paint machine. Twenty-five trays are made each minute, that equals 32,500 pieces of candy corn each minute! It takes four to five days for Some of the tricky parts of the bike are one piece of candy corn to go through all of the processing made by hand. Next a person finds the steps. right parts for the brakes and gears. After Candy corn used to only come out at Halloween but now there that, they shape the wheels. There are is Christmas and Easter colored candy corn too. thirty-six spokes per wheel that are put in The brand I like best is Brach’s. My favorite is the pumpkin shaped ones. by hand. The wheels and seats are put on the bikes. Last, the bikes are taken to a distribution warehouse. A factory can produce 2,500 bikes per day! The Cougar’s Roar

THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE

Golden Gate Bridge By Adiel Lopez – 4th Grade Do you know that in 1937 the Golden Gate Bridge was opened for use? Why is the Golden Gate Bridge so popular? It is popular because it helped people to access the bay to San Francisco, California. The bridge is not Golden at all, it is orange-red to blend in with the hill. It is made out of steel and concrete. It costs $6.00 per car to go across the bridge. I wish I could see the Golden Bridge in person to see how large it is.

Golden Gate Bridge By Jack Bitar Did you know that the Golden Gate Bridge is not Gold at all? It is Red! The Golden Gate Bridge is in San Francisco and is a landmark for the area. It took 4 years, 3 months and 14 days to build the Golden Gate Bridge. It stands out and it can be seen from long distances. I wish I could see the Golden Gate Bridge because it is so beautiful!

Golden Gate Bridge By Judy Xiong Have you ever heard of the Golden Gate Bridge? The Golden Gate Bridge is 8,981 feet long. When the Golden Gate Bridge was built in San Francisco in 1933, many people used it to go across the water. The Golden Gate Bridge is 85 years old. I wish I could go see the Golden Gate Bridge because it’s so huge! The Cougar’s Roar

Bridges By: Miles Moffatt – 5th Grade

Portland has twelve bridges that cross over the Willamette River taking people to and from downtown Portland. The first bridge ever built in Portland for cars, is the Hawthorne Bridge. Before Portland had bridges, people used to cross the river using ferries. Ferries are boats that carry people, cars and sometimes horses and carts across rivers. Here are list of the Portland bridges: The St. Johns Bridge was built in 1931. The Burlington Northern Bridge is a railway bridge built in 1908, for trains only. The Freemont Bridge was built in 1973. The Broadway Bridge was built in 1913. The Steel Bridge was built in 1912. The Burnside Bridge was built in 1926. The Morrison Bridge was built in 1958. The Hawthorn Bridge was built in 1910. The Marquam Bridge was built in 1966. The Tillicum Crossing Bridge was built in 2015. This bridge is for bikes, people, The MAX, busses and the streetcar only. The Ross Island Bridge was built in 1926. The Sellwood Bridge was re-built in 2016. The Broadway Bridge is a drawbridge. It is Portland’s first drawbridge. That means the road of the bridge opens up so boats can go under and then it closes back down into a road again so cars can go across. The Bridge of the Gods is a big bridge that goes over the Columbia River connecting Oregon and Washington. The longest bridge in Oregon is the Astoria Bridge. The Astoria Bridge is a little longer than four miles. It crosses over the lower Columbia River. This bridge also connects Oregon and Washington. My favorite bridge is the Marquam Bridge because it is a double decker bridge. It is made of ½ concrete and ½ metal.

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Robots at School Robots at School rd By Ivana Ramirez – 3 Grade By Youssef Salib – 3rd Grade Would you like to see a robot in your Have you ever seen a robot at school? I have, school? At my school, Kelly Creek, the fifth because we have robot at our school. Dash is a graders have robots named Dash. Dash is three-sided robot. He can change colors on his a robot that is programed by the fifth chest and eye. Dash is a robot he needs to be graders.They use a coding app on the programed by a fifth grader. Dash is a robot that ipads. Once the robots are programed they has a button on his leg that turns him on and off. are tested to see how they move and follow He can move his leg. I can’t wait to be in fifth commands. It’s fun to have robots in my grade so I can use the robot. school. I am excited that I have robots in my school. Robots at School Robots at School By: Yaneli Vasquez – 3rd Grade By Kevin Lopez Do you want to have robots at school? Dash How would you feel if you heard a is a robot that fifth graders at Kelly Creek robot in the hallway at school? I am Elementary School use every day. Kids learn so excited because our school has how to program the robots. Fifth graders have to load the app onto their ipad to robots! Fifth graders at my school program the robots. They program the get to program and use a robot called robots to make noises of animals like a dog Dash. The robot needs to be charged or a bunny. The robots can be programed to each night. Fifth graders in Ms. move their heads up and down and close Wolf’s class use an ipad to make the their eyes and open them. I am so excited to robot move. The robot can be go to fifth grade so I can use the robots. You should have a robot at school. programed to help you do stuff like clean. I can’t wait to use the robots when I am in fifth grade. I am happy because some fifth graders showed me how to use the robot! The Cougar’s Roar

Benefits of Chromebooks by Alex Garcia Angolo Chromebooks Would you like to play games on By: Mateo Garcia Avalos – 3rd Grade a Chromebook at your school? Would you like to have chromebooks at Who can use the Chromebooks? your school? Preschoolers cannot use Teachers and students can use the Chrome books, they are too little. You can play games on the the Chromebooks at school. They Chromebooks and make history shine. can do math and play games on You can improve math and science the Chromebooks. Why do we use skills. The best thing about the Chromebooks / We use the Chromebooks is playing games.

Chromebooks at school to learn math and you can read on the Chromebooks. What are Chromebooks By Shirley Caamal May – 3rd Grade somethings that you can do with a Would you like to play games on a Chromebook in your class? You ChromeBooks at your school? can play games also do math on it Teachers and students can get and you can read on the ChromeBooks at school. In ELD you Chromebooks. It feels good to can use the ChromeBooks. They help have a Chromebook because they more people to save money. The best thing about ChromeBooks at school is help me learn. that you can play games. I am happy to have ChromeBooks at school The Cougar’s Roar

5 Guys Restaurant Review By: My’kel Evans – 4th Grade

Gresham has a few great burger places. One of my favorites is 5 Guys. The item that I like best, at 5 Guys Restaurant, is their hot dog. The reason that I love their hotdogs is because of the way they cook them. They split the hotdog down the middle before they grill it. That makes them taste extra good! In preparing for this restaurant review, I asked to do a phone interview about 5 Guys with one of the managers or employees. I had some specific questions that I wanted answers to. I was surprised a few weeks later when an administrator, named Amanda, showed up at the school for an interview in person! Amanda surprised me with more than an interview; she also brought me a shirt, a hat and a gift card! That was super awesome! Read on to find out the answers to the pressing questions about 5 Guys! Me: Why does 5 Guys have peanuts at a burger place? Amanda: Because all of our menu items are made fresh, there is a longer wait for your food than at a fast food place, so we provide peanuts to tide you over until your food comes. Me: Why are the peanuts just in big boxes around the restaurant? Amanda: We do that so that if people come into 5 Guys, who have allergies to peanuts, there is no cross contamination. The peanuts are contained in the boxes. Me: How many milkshake flavors does 5 Guys have? Amanda: There are 10 mix in flavors so the possibilities are endless. My favorite milkshake flavor is a peanut butter and Oreo chocolate shake. Me: What is the most popular thing on the menu? Amanda: The most popular item is the regular cheeseburger. Amanda went on to tell me some more about 5 Guys.text She told me that 5 Guys originated in Washington D.C. A father and his four sons started it. That is why it is called 5 Guys. The 5 Guys restaurant now has 2,000 locations across the United States and London! Sometimes when you walk into a 5 Guys, you might hear someone yell something like “two in the door!”. That is to let the cook know that more orders from people will be coming. Amanda said that the fries they serve, which are so delicious, take a lot of work to make. First of all, they only buy potatoes locally from Oregon, Washington or Idaho. The potatoes are cut, soaked in water and then fried fresh. They shake Cajun seasoning on the fries as they come fresh out of the fryer. Finally, Amanda explained why they cook their hotdogs with a split down the middle. It is so that both sides get cooked and caramelized evenly. So guys, go try 5 Guys! You won’t be disappointed!

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ENDANGERED OR EXTINCT ANIMALS

Critically Endangered Black Rhinoceros By Brandon Garcia – 4th Grade Endangered Red Panda Do you know about Black Rhinoceros? They By Carlos Lopez – 4th Grade are critically endangered animals that live in You have heard of a panda, but have you heard of a Africa. They were 11 feet to 12 feet tall. The Red Panda ??? Its color is white, red, and brown. colors are brown, grey with white. It looks like Skin type fur. Size: 24 inches tall and 47 inches grey and black, but it is grey or brown. It long. weight is 1,800lbs-3,100lbs. It became Weight range: 6 ½ to 13 ½ pounds. They live in the critically endangered in 1996. Black Himalayas and Southwestern China. Red pandas are Rhinoceros are critically endangered because nocturnal. They are endangered because of loss of people hunted them and there's not that many habitat and illegal hunting. left. I wish that I could see a Black Rhinoceros in the wild.

Sabre Tooth Tiger th by Cristofer Arango – 4 Grade Endangered Butterfly Fish Sabre Tooth Tigers have big teeth about 7 By Elizabeth Santos – 4th Grade inches to 8 inches long. The tigers are about Have you heard of a Butterfly Fish? 5 feet tall. Their colors are tan, brown,yellow, They are endangered animals that live in the black and white. They become extinct when Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.The Butterfly there was no food and people hunted them. Fish has different colors that are black, white, Sabre Tooth Tigers lived in North and South yellow, orange and silver. Their lifespan is 8 to 10 America. I wish I could see a Sabre Tooth years. The Butterfly Fish are an endangered fish Tiger’s teeth because it would be so cool because of water pollution. I wish I could see a because they are so big! Butterfly Fish one day. The Cougar’s Roar

ENDANGERED OR EXTINCT ANIMALS

Red Wolf By Jared Palma Woolly Mammoth Did you know that By: Raphael some wolves are red? Palma There is a wolf called Did you know that The Red Wolf. They Woolly Mammoths have reddish fur and once roamed the sharp claws! The Red frozen and coldest Wolf is critically parts of the earth? endangered because It weighed 8,000 many people hunted pounds. It looked them, and there are like a big hairy not many of them left. elephant. It was 11 They run fast and feet tall. It became hunt animals. extinct around 1,700 BC. It became extinct when rising temperatures in their habitat drove them to be extinct. I wish they were still here. Dodo birds are Extinct By: Gabriel Zabolotnyuk Do you know that there were birds called Dodos? They are extinct now. Dodo birds were grey, black, white and brown. The Dodo birds weighed 44 pounds.They became extinct mid-late 17th century. People, cats,and dogs were eating Dodos. The Cougar’s Roar text Why You Should Root for the Seattle Football Seahawks By: Anibal Hernandez – 5th Grade th By: G. Meateater – 5 Grade Teams play football in the fall. The players score points The Seattle Seahawks has a quarterback for their team by making touchdowns. A touch down is named Russell Wilson. He is a really good made when a player runs the ball down the field to the quarterback. In my opinion, the Seahawks end zone. A touch down is worth six points! After the are one of the best football teams in the west. touch down, the team’s kicker gets a chance to kick the Paul Allen is the owner of the Seahawks and football through the big goal, at the end zone, called the the Portland professional basketball team The field goal. If the kicker can kick the football through Trailblazers. The coach of the Seattle those goal posts, he earns an extra point for their team. Seahawks is Pete Carroll. Sadly, while A football game is broken up into four quarters, with a th writing this article, on October 15 , Paul Allen half time break for the players after the first two quarters passed away. Mr. Allen was diagnosed with are played. The team with the most points at the end of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma disease, a type of the game wins! cancer. He had this disease nine years ago I like to watch football because they make touchdowns. but recently it came back. He agreed to fight My favorite team is the Seahawks! the cancer off but he did not get the chance. Pete Carroll, the head coach said that he will miss him greatly. “ His gracious leadership and tremendous inspiration will never be forgotten.” The Seahawks work together well as a team. Russell Wilson is a hard working quarterback and doesn’t take a break unless it is important. Russell Wilson is arguably in the top 5 of all NFL quarterbacks. He can take the pressure and is the most exciting player on the field. You may be wondering what the “12th man” means with the Seahawks, well, I will tell you. A football team has to have eleven players on the field at all times during play or they will be penalized. The 12th man is a way for the fans to feel part of the team. Many fans wear the number 12 on hats, shirts or other gear to show support. It lets the team know that their heart is in the game right along with the players! t The Cougar’s Roar

Theater Review By: Brandon Roberts – 4th Grade My Interviews:

My family and I like to go to the movies. We go when Stark Street Cinemas with manager Randal ~ we get a chance. Gresham has two of the best movie Me: Do you decorate your theater for holidays? theaters, Mount Hood Theater and Regal Stark Street Randal: In the past, during the holiday season, Cinemas. I did a review on both of these theaters and we’ve put up a Christmas Tree. had a chance to interview the managers at both Me: Do you change your prices on any special theaters. Read below to find out more! days? We will start with Mount Hood Theater. Mount Hood Randal: We have half price Tuesdays and Theater has a hometown feel. It is an older and cozier Sundays but not if it falls on a holiday. For theater. They offer a variety of snacks from, of course, example, Christmas falls on a Tuesday this year. popcorn to ice cream! My personal favorite is the We will not have half price Tuesday on Christmas Nerds Rope. Mount Hood Theater has comfortable day. seats. They have the best and most comfortable Me: If someone famous came to your theater, who seats. Mount Hood consistently has the least would you want it to be? expensive tickets in town! Not only do they have the Randal: Edgar Wright. He is an English director, best prices all of the time but Tuesdays are half price screenwriter, producer, and actor. and Fridays they have a double feature option. That Me: What do you want our readers to know about means two movies for the price of one! You just have your theater? to let them know when you buy your ticket that you Randal: That we are happy with people show up! want the double feature deal. Mount Hood Theater also offers special ticket packages to the local schools, Mount Hood Theater – with manager Nancy ~ which allow adults to accompany their kids or Me: What makes your theater so popular? grandkids for free! Ask your school or Mount Hood Nancy: Our low prices Theater about their school age ticket packages, they Me: When did Mount Hood Theater open? can’t be beat! The only drawback to Mount Hood Nancy: It opened in 1948. It’s an antique! Theater is that they show only one movie at a time Me: Has anyone famous ever come to this theater? because they have only one theater. Also, one of my Nancy: Not that I am aware of. favorite things about Mount Hood Theater is that huge Me: What do you want people to know about your painting on the ceiling of the moon, as you walk into theater? the lobby. Nancy: That it is a family run theater and that it is family oriented. Regal Stark Street Cinemas is a much larger place that has many theaters within one building. The advantage of that is that customers can choose from many different movie options. If a family goes together, maybe the parents will want to watch one movie, in one theater; while the kids go to see a different movie in another theater and still be all in the same building. The prices for movie tickets and food are more expensive at Stark Street Cinemas. However they also have half price Tuesday and they also have half price Sundays. One nice thing about these theaters is that the seats have cup holders in the armrests. Stark Street Cinemas also have entertainment before the movie starts and they also have games you can play there. The Cougar’s Roar

Dogman Book Series Review By: Ruben Cotan – 3rd Grade

Dogman is a book about this pet dog and a guy who is a policeman and also the dog’s owner. One day they were running by the park. A bad cat had put a bomb outside by the park. The man’s boss called the man and said there is a bomb at the park. Next the policman and dog were running to the park, where the cat left the bomb. The man and the dog were going to cut the wires on the bomb so nobody would get hurt. Next the dog growled “grrr” to let the policeman know which wire to cut. The policeman asked “red, green or blue wire?” The dog said “grrrr.” At the blue wire, so the policeman would know which wire to cut. When the policeman cut the blue wire there was an explosion. The ambulance came and took the dog and the policeman to the hospital. The nurse got an idea to sew the dog’s head onto the man’s body. It worked! He became a dogman policeman. The dogman got a house. The bad cat got a box and opened it. There was kitten in there! The kitten was making fun of the bad cat so the bad cat said “Get out of my house!” The kitten ran away and it arrived at dogman’s house. The dogman took the kitten in to take care of it. The dogman and the bad cat always have this rivalry going on. These Dogman Books are super funny and super cool. The stories are good. You should check out the Dogman books because you would like to read these books! They are fun for parents and kids to read together! The Cougar’s Roar

DEAR STELLA AND ROSE – ADVICE COLUMN BY: Sammi Cheney and Zoie Stayton – 4th Grade

Dear Stella & Rose, One day, I was in class and we were doing Talent Show Troubles silent reading. The classroom was so quiet Advice by: Sammi Cheney and Zoie Stayton – 4th you could hear the sound of someone Grade breathing. I was super thirsty and grabbed my water bottle to take a drink. I gulp really Dear Stella and Rose, loud, I was gulping down my cold water and A friend, I will call “Tulip”, was starting a club to practice could hear myself gulping but didn’t thing and perform at a talent show. Tulip was in the club but how loud it must have sounded to the class. quit to start a different club because she felt like another My friend who sits across from me widened girl, I’ll call Sympathy, was being bossy. Sympathy was her eyes every time I gulped. So I stopped mad that Tulip quit to start a new club and took two girls gulping, looked around and said “What?” from Sympathy’s club with her. What can I do to help my Then everyone laughed at me and my friends work this out? friend said “You gulped like a fish!” then she Signed, started to laugh along with the rest of the I hate drama! class. I was called fish for the rest of the day. It made me feel embarrassed and Dear hate drama, insecure. What should I do ? It is hard when our friends have disagreements and don’t Signed ,Fishy get along. It sounds like the root of the problem is being bossy. Most everybody doesn’t like being bossed Dear Fishy, around! The first thing we would suggest is to tell your First you should try respectfully talking it out friends to stop and cool off, then try and talk the problem with the class. Try apologizing for gulping out calmly . Maybe Sympathy did not realize that she so loud and say you didn’t realize that it was was coming across as being bossy. If Tulip explains that so loud. she felt like she was being bossed around and how that The class could have ignored it or asked makes her feel, maybe Sympathy would apologize. You you politely to stop, instead of laughing at could try to help your friends come to a compromise and you and making fun of you. maybe become one group again. It sounds like the class also owes you an We hope this helps! apology. Stella and Rose At the end of the day, you will never actually be a fish! So, try to forget about what the class did and just be more aware of your drinking habits. Maybe you could practice quiet drinking at home. Thank you for your question. We hope this helped.

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HUMAN INTERESTS

Moving By: Payton Marsh

Moving someplace new is not always that fun because you have to leave all of your friends. Sometimes you have to leave family behind too. That can make you feel kind of sad. It might take up to nine months for a new place to feel like home. When you move, you get new friends, start a different school and meet new people. Moving can also be fun because you get to explore a new town and new places. It is super fun to get a new room! You get to decorate it and it is How You Can Help all clean and new. Moving By: Luke Christiaan gives you a new start! When you see a kid having a hard day, don’t treat them harshly. Ask them what’s the matter. If the kids responds physically, tell a teacher immediately. Don’t judge them in your mind and heart. Try to relieve the kid and calm him or her down. Chromebook can be used to distract from the problem, maybe help the student get fresh air.

How To Be a Good Big Brother By: Abdiel Bautista

1) Be nice to your baby sister or brother 2) Be gentle 3) Help out with feeding and other chores 4) Help with cooking, practice with your dad to give mom a break. 5) Hold and rock the baby or play with and read to a younger sister or brother. The Cougar’s Roar

DID YOU KNOW?

Did You Know Robots… By: John Mourles 2nd grade 1) Help with traffic by timing traffic signals? 2) Help make cars? 3) Help make computers? 4) Help doctors do surgeries 5) Are gentle? 6) Help with housework - like vacuuming?

Did You Know Disneyland…. By: Logan Kammeyer 2nd grade

1) Is in California? 2) You might get soaked on the Splash Mountain ride? 3) You can drive or fly there? 4) You might see Disney Characters there like Moana or Maui?

Did You Know Kindergarten Went on a Fieldtrip…. By: Anthony Cob and Andre’ Ortega Sanchez kindergarten

1) We walked to the pumpkin patch farm 2) There were big and little pumpkins there 3) We wore out boots 4) We got to pick our own pumpkin 5) There were green, yellow and orange pumpkins 6) We cut our pumpkins up at home 7) They were squishy inside! The Cougar’s Roar

Enchiladas By: Shirley Camaal May – 3rd Grade Ingredients: Tortillas Chicken Cheese Mole’ Salt Onion Directions: First you have to cook the tortillas with oil in a pan on the stove. After that, spread the mole’ on the tortillas. Mole” is a sauce made of peppers, ancho chili peppers, dried chili peppers, chocolate, pine nuts, sesame seeds, onion and oil. You can buy it already made at Fred Meyer or you can look up a recipe to make your own. Put the chicken in a pot with boiling water, add salt and onion. Cook the chicken until it is done. Put the chicken on the mole’ and then fold the tortilla, then add the cheese to each tortilla. Put these in the oven until the cheese is melted.

How to Cook a Turkey Dinner By: Ashton Stone - kindergarten

Find a turkey and then you bake it. You put rice on the outside, then you bake it for two minutes at 100 degrees and let it dry. Serve it with scrambled eggs, hotdogs, mashed potatoes and stuffing. Then you eat it!